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  • 3 - Virtuosity, Illegitimacy, and Haitian Royalty

  • Peter Reed, University of Mississippi
  • Book:
    Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 91-119

  • Summary

    This chapter turns to the black New York actor Ira Aldridge, who began building his transatlantic fame in 1825 with London performances in the popular play The Death of Christophe, King of Hayti. These performances helped construct complicated but popular notions of Haitian sovereignty and black celebrity. London’s illegitimate theatre remade figures of black power in its own image, undercutting Haiti’s legitimacy while using popular conceptions of Haiti to launch the first African American tragedian to international fame.